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King of the Road

Here's another example of what you have to put up with. Now, I confess that I might be misinterpreting the ambiguous tag on this plug that reads "DO NOT UNPLUG," but this is a picture of exactly how I found it when I checked into my hotel room. This powered my broadband connection. Needless to say it didn't work. Welcome to Silicon Valley, the technological hub of the world.

I hear the screaming of my unborn children.

To your right you see another hazard for travellers: a highly contaminated, dangerous area. Listen closely and you can hear my testes screaming. Fortunately, this sign wasn't posted in a populated area ... just the San Jose Convention Center, which hosts millions and millions of travellers per year. When I start growing breasts, I'll know who to sue. (Hang on ... that might be pretty cool.)

This is 100% true.

I shouldn't complain. On a recent trip one of our GameSpy Arcade programmers took this picture of a sign on the door across the hallway from his room. Click to enlarge. You can see a schedule of "treatments." What are these treatments? Nobody knew, but for like an hour from 10 'til 11 you could hear a woman screaming inside. True story!! Nothing I saw in Deus Ex creeped me out as much as that.

So you see, it's not all fun and games on the road. That's all for this week! I'll leave you with a completely unrelated note.

Every day I put together GameSpy's daily HTML newsletter, a concise summary of everything going on in the gaming world. You should subscribe! I'm always looking for ways to get people to click on the email and read about what's going on. Recently, in honor of our Impossible Creatures Preview, I sent out an email with the following subject line: "Whacked Out Animals Will Blow Your Mind."

I didn't consider what might happen if the subject line was truncated, until reader Steve O'Rourke sent me the following unfortunate screenshot: